Krakaur
Chilly downtempo beats upstate New York style
Connie Constance
Metropolitan mysticism and downtown dream pop
‘The Sounds And Music Of The RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer’
digs out another gem of early electronic music: ‘The Sounds And Music Of The RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer’, a demonstration disc of the monstrous RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer from 1955, on both 12-inch LP and seven-inch box set formats
No More Nails
Our resident columnist is back from his stint at the Edinburgh Festival. We reckon you ought to be seeing him on ‘Mock The Week’ any day now. In the meantime, he’s demanding a pay rise and going on about Aphex Twin again
Top Trackage
Our new monthly round-up of top trackage – courtesy of the man who invented the phrase “trance trousers”
Willis Earl Beal
Coming on like a ‘Twin Peaks’ version of Otis Redding
Shitwife
Making Sleaford Mods look like Bucks Fizz
Roseau
Ethereal urban dream pop – with teeth
Ofelia K
Delicate warblings with vibrant electronic twang included
Mauricio Kagel
How our resident archivist became the owner of Henry Jacobs’ stash of early electronic music reel-to-reel tapes, among them a piece by the German-Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel, is one of the strangest stories you’ll ever hear